How far is the Internet of Things from the general public?

This type of application is most useful in healthcare, where it can help patients get back to health as quickly as possible by keeping an eye on their health and behavioral habits. In elderly care, Lively is a work in progress, offering a number of "passive" sensors that track the movements of the elderly, unlike always-on vigilance systems like cameras or disaster solutions like panic buttons. For example, sensors on the refrigerator door can be used to learn about an older person's eating habits, and sensors on the medication dispenser can be used to watch when an older person takes his or her medication. Awareness of the world A networked umbrella can predict whether it will rain today. In a similar vein, a new product concept encourages the distribution of sensors in the environment that can be used to measure changes in the surrounding temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure, thus helping you determine how these values affect your health and mood. Not only can you retrieve information about microscopic values like humidity, but what's most significant is that people around the world can take specific measurements from a macroscopic perspective, such as the Geiger counter that someone DIY'd at the tsunami in Japan. A recent Kickstarter campaign called Smart Citizen aims to standardize the way we measure air composition, temperature, light intensity, noise levels, and humidity. These collaborative campaigns could take civic media to the next level, with everyone being able to upload data relevant to their device's location through Smart Citizen's device. Conclusion While maverick vendors and alpha geeks have been doing their best to uncover meaningful applications of IoT through new tools and devices, it will take time for the general public to fully embrace IoT. In the first category, there are many tools that measure our walks or runs, but most of them don't have a great user experience. Similarly, some of the products in the second category seem to have privacy implications. In the third category of products, standardization is a challenge, and a reasonable interpretation of this data requires a convincing case. Ultimately, finding significant connections between various data sources and realizing the relevance of sensor streams is the breakthrough in the development of the Internet of Things. But first, we must design products that are easy for users to install and use, and that provide feedback in human language. And as IoT exposes certain private data, designers must take into account relevant social conventions and legal issues.